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STARSHIP REGISTRY │ U.S.S.DAUNTLESS(NX-01-A)[FORGED]

Purportedly launched on stardate 54172, the U.S.S.Dauntless was an alleged prototype vessel of the new Dauntless-class [starship program]. It was first encountered in 2374 by the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant on stardate 51978.2 following encrypted instructions (believed to have been sent by Starfleet Command) to proceed to a designated spatial grid.

TheDauntless was constructed by the alien  Arturis, the lone surviving member of the Borg designatedSpecies 116, and employed a fully functional quantum slipstream drive- the first working slipstream ever encountered by a Federation Starfleet crew.

In attempt to resemble a Federation starship, the ship employed a method of particle synthesis designed to mask its interior and exterior signatures from authentication. 

At150 meters (492 ft) in length and rising 7 decks in height, the vessel was approximately half the size of the U.S.S. Voyager(343 meters and 15 decks) but designed to only require a crew of 1 for complete functionality and operation.

TheDauntless lacked nearly all amenities typically found on Federation starships including centralized or designated areas for off-duty socialization, dining and other forms recreation integral for a healthy crew moral and positive social-structure.

All crew quarters [too] shared in the vessel’s focus on efficiency through ultra-lean design as each room had designed for only shared-living in three and four-person single room dormitory configurations.

The ship armament consisted of a standard phaser, shield and tractor beam system. However, the overall design of the vessel suggests it was constructed to utilize its quantum slipstream drive not only for propulsion but defensive and offensive purposes as while.

While in possession of the Voyager crew, vital understanding and analysis of the ship’s slipstream drive resulted in a significant leap forward in the exotic and highly experimental technology for Starfleet and allowed the Voyager crew to integrate a modified version of the drive with Voyager’s own systems based on model simulations and brief testing aboard the Dauntlessitself. 

This allowed the crew to transverse several thousand light-years in hours and return to Borg space on a rescue mission and back [300 light-years further in its journey prior to its use] before the experimental drive overloaded ship systems.

TheU.S.S.Dauntless was presumably destroyed by the Borg Collective on or after stardate 51981.6. However, temporal records maintained by 30^th century Federation (Department of Temporal Investigations) reveal its design had been adopted by Starfleet by the 26^th century with at least one Dauntless-class starship participating in the Battle of Procyon V.